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Les monumens de la monarchie françoise : qui comprennent l'histoire de France, avec les figures de chaque regne que l'injure des tems a epargnées ...

by: Montfaucon, Bernard de, 1655-1741; Gandouin, Julien-Michel; Giffart, Pierre François, b. 1677; Mathey, Charles Grégoire, d. 1749; Simon, Claude, d. 1752

Publication date: 1729

Publisher: A Paris : Chez Julien-Michel Gandouin, quai de Conti, aux trois Vertus, et [chez] Pierre-François Giffart, rue S. Jacques, à Sainte Therese

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: French; Latin

Volume: 2

The 5 vols. published in 1729, 1730, 1731, 1732 and 1733

Claude Simon named as printer in colophons

Vol. 1 has frontispiece port. of Louis XV, to whom work is dedicated, engraved by C. Mathey. A total of 305 unsigned plates, some double page, numbered and lettered separately in each vol. Vols. 1 & 2 contain plates depicting the Bayeux Tapestry. Woodcut initials, one signed VC LS (Vincent Le Sueur?). Woodcut and engraved head- and tail-pieces. Some woodcut head-pieces and the t.p. vignettes are signed "P" (a few "SP")

Includes indexes in each vol

Includes errata

t. 1. L'origine des François, & la suite des rois jusqu'à Philippe I. inclusivement -- t. 2. La conquête de l'Angleterre par Guillaume, duc de Normandie, dit le Bâtard, tirée d'un monument du tems. Et la suite des rois, depuis Louis VI. dit le Gros, jusqu'à Jean II. inclusivement -- t. 3. La suite des rois depuis Charles V. jusqu'à Louis XI. inclusivement -- t. 4. La suite des rois depuis Charles VIII. jusqu'à François I. inclusivement -- t. 5. La suite des rois depuis Henri II. jusqu'à Henri IV. inclusivement

Sloan candidate

Binding: mottled calfskin, gilt and blind tooled. Spines with author/title and vol. no. on separate labels. Edges red. Ribbon place markers